Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

10.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

11.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

12.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

13.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

14.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

15.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

16.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

17.

Work is a four letter word!

18.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

20.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

21.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

24.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

25.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

26.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

27.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

28.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

29.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

34.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

35.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

37.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

38.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

40.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

41.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

43.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

44.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

45.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

46.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

47.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

48.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

49.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine